"Inside the reliable pull of a well-written love story, Frida Slattery As Herself is a skillful, unusual novel – clever, lucid and unexpected in the way of good theatre." — Guardian, "Book of the Day"A sweeping, witty, and wise novel following an actress and a writer-director—told through the plays they make together and the time they spend apartYou could probably run cities on the energy generated between directors like him an...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Introducing an outstanding new voice in literary fiction: a sensual, sharp, and utterly compelling campus novel about grief, reinvention, and the ripple effects of telling lies**If I ever woke up with an ungodly dread — that I could change it all now, turn around, and confess — I ignored it. I had never been good, and there was no point in trying now.On a small liberal arts campus in upstate New York, Charlotte begins her final y...

A completely bingeable, deliciously fun novel about a family of women who are thrust into the spotlight in the wake of a scandal and expertly exploit their newfound fame—imagine if Monica Lewinsky had Kris Jenner for a mother.**Readers are obsessed with THE LOWE JOB**'A sharp, witty, and wildly entertaining debut!' ?????'The best book of 2026! A binge all-nighter!' ?????'Packed with juicy drama that had me laughing, gasping, and shakin...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Zoe, Al, Rachel, Rob, Yas and Indie.** Six friends who were inseparable at university, who have all had their secret or not so secret passions for each other, their own hopes and fears.Over the years, they have gone their separate ways. Rob is a history teacher, with a string of broken relationships behind him. Yas is a surgeon and very much her own woman. Indie is married and a successful coffee entrepreneur. Rachel is a stay at home mum with tw...

Brought to you by Penguin.Do you worry about what other people think of you? Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why?For too long, our value and self-worth has been tied to pleasing others. We've dimmed our true selves to fit in – no matter the cost. But there's always a cost. People-pleasing and staying likeable means suppressing our feelings, words, actions, and desires, and there's only so much we can conceal before it all unravels.

Brought to you by Penguin.Samantha’s mother tongue is dying out. An urgent need to find out more becomes an expansive investigation into how to keep hold of her culture – and when to let it goThe daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language that’s now on the verge of extinction.The realisation that she won’t be able to tell her son he’s ‘living in th...

Brought to you by Penguin.Have you ever felt really passionately about something but struggled to put it into words?Or found yourself in an argument with someone who won't listen?Or felt regret about the things you didn't say in the moment?Conversations can be tricky, whether it's with friends, family, people online or a room full of strangers. And someone who knows this all too well is writer...

Brought to you by Penguin.There’s no health guru in Sweden better than Cassi. Couple’s therapy? Puppy yoga? Full moon rituals? She’s got everyone in the remote village of Bäcken covered. The locals don’t really know who Cassi is or how she managed to turn a derelict cottage into a successful self help retreat, but one thing is clear: they’re all willing to pay good money for her services.There’s only one problem: Cassi is a fraud. A great one at that, who h...

Brought to you by Penguin.An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker.In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, publishes his memoirs. Rewriting his own past, claiming to have known nothin...

Isherwood’s story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter: the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.

An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,” Shakespeare reaches for eleven. For Shakespeare, prime numbers were magical....

When you search for the past, you just might find yourselfCousins Ellie and Lucie set out to find buried treasure. Instead, they stumble into an unexpected journey—one that uncovers forgotten histories, rekindles family bonds, and digs deep into who they are becoming.Reuniting for the first time in over twenty years at their grandfather’s home, the two quickly discover a shared fascination with hunting for the past. What begins as a tentative hobby soon bec...